{"id":233058,"date":"2016-07-21T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233058"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:57:26","slug":"oscar-pistorius-appeal-over-lenient-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233058","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius: Appeal over &#8216;lenient&#8217; sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">South African prosecutors say they will take court action in order to secure a longer prison sentence for Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius.<\/p>\n<p>He was jailed for six years earlier this month for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argue that Pistorius&#8217; sentence is inappropriate for the crime of murder and &#8220;shockingly too lenient&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They also argue that the sentence is unjust and could bring the justice system into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius was initially given a five-year term for manslaughter, but was found guilty of murder on appeal last December.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted shooting her, but said he had mistaken Ms Steenkamp for an intruder and acted out of fear.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/FF96\/production\/_90303456_9b7b1c41-5c01-4b1a-8d6a-b92395f00c65.jpg\" alt=\"Parents of the late Reeva Steenkamp, June and Barry, arrive inside the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on 6 July\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>August 2012:<\/strong> Competes in London Olympics and Paralympics, where he won a gold medal<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>February 2013:<\/strong> Shoots dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>March 2014:<\/strong> Trial begins<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>September 2014:<\/strong> Judge finds Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>October 2014:<\/strong> Begins five-year sentence<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>October 2015:<\/strong> Transferred to house arrest<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>December 2015:<\/strong> Appeal court changes verdict to murder<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>July 2016:<\/strong> Sentenced to six years in jail for murder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African prosecutors say they will take court action in order to secure a longer prison sentence for Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. He was jailed for six years earlier this month for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. Prosecutors argue that Pistorius&#8217; sentence is inappropriate for the crime of murder and &#8220;shockingly too lenient&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":233063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}